Our planet is home to thousands upon thousands of species, large and small, cute and ugly, and human activity has driven many of them to the brink of extinction in just the past few decades. Today, we ...

Texas border patrol agents rescued seven endangered baby spider monkeys that were smuggled inside a backpack over the southern border. Video from an arrest in Brownsville on Thursday shows officials ...

Between the Old World, which includes Africa and Asia, and the New World, which includes Mexico and Central and South America, there are well over 200 monkey species. Yet, nearly all species of baby ...

Two of six spider monkeys illegally brought into California are shown above with their troopmates where they are now living at Chicago's Brookfield Zoo. (U.S. Attorney's Office) A Texas man was busted ...

Many animals across the globe are in danger of becoming extinct — and the Sulawesi crested macaque monkey is one of them. The Chester Zoo in Cheshire, England, recently welcomed a rare newborn monkey, ...

SAN DIEGO -- A Texas man was sentenced in federal court Friday for smuggling six Mexican baby spider monkeys into the U.S. Sarmad Ghaled Dafar of Houston was sentenced to four months in custody and ...

Meet a baby monkey who lives at the Houston Zoo. Meet a baby monkey who lives at the Houston Zoo. Red-tailed monkeys have heart-shaped markings on their nose.

Baby monkeys have been tortured to death on film with viewers voting on which weapons they should be abused with. The monkey torture rings consist of hundreds of people encouraging members to carry ...

A Texas man was sentenced to four months in custody for smuggling six rare baby spider monkeys over the Mexican border and attempting to sell them over Facebook, officials said. Sarmad Ghaled Dafar, ...

On an island in Panama, a fad that one researcher called "viscerally disturbing" has recently taken off among a group of young male monkeys. These adolescents and juveniles have started to kidnap the ...